Gabriel Lippmann quotes

  1. Home
  2. Gabriel Lippmann quotes
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
Gabriel Lippmann
Work
Progress
First
May
This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
Gabriel Lippmann
Result
I got quite good results from protein plates.
Gabriel Lippmann
Results
In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
Gabriel Lippmann
Values
Infinity
Life is short and progress is slow.
Gabriel Lippmann
Life
Progress
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
Gabriel Lippmann
Light
Reflection
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
Gabriel Lippmann
Eye
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann
Photography